Global importance, patterns, and controls of dissolved silica retention in lakes and reservoirs

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Harrison, John A ^a   Frings, Patrick J ^b   Beusen, Arthur H W ^c   Conley, Daniel J ^b   McCrackin, Michelle L ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c PBL NETHERLANDS ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED SILICA; FAVORABLE CONDITIONS; GLOBAL APPLICATIONS; GLOBAL ESTIMATE; GLOBAL MODELS; GLOBAL SCALE; HOT SPOT; LAKE SAND RESERVOIRS; LAND SURFACE; LENTIC SYSTEMS; REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES; SETTLING RATE; SETTLING VELOCITY; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT; SURFACE AREA; TRANSPORT MODELS; WATER RESIDENCE TIME; WATERBODIES;

EUTROPHICATION; LAKES; LOADING; SILICA;

RESERVOIRS (WATER);

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED LOAD; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAKE WATER; LENTIC ENVIRONMENT; RESERVOIR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SETTLING VELOCITY; SILICA;

EID: 84863431579     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GB004228     Document Type: Article

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